92 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentari/ 



can, with any certainty, be said to represent the Katou Tsjaka, 

 both having the peduncukis much too long, and therefore both 

 agreeing with M. Lamarck's figure : yet, as the second figure in 

 Rumphius resembles most M. Lamarck's figure, I should quote 

 for his N. oricntaUs the Bancaliis media {Herb. Ainb. iii. 84. t. 55. 



/. 2.) 



AVhen I returned from Ava to Calcutta (1796), I know that 

 Dr. Roxburgh considered the Kotou Tsjaka as the Nauclea ori- 

 entalis, and under that name sent it to the Kew Garden, where 

 it still remains (Ilort. Kew. i. 'ado.) : but Dr. Roxburgh has 

 since {Hort. Beng. 14.) left out altogether the ^ . orientalis and 

 Katou Tsjaka ; and the plant which he and I considered as such, 

 or at least one very like it, he calls Nauclea Cadamba. For this 

 he may have had different reasons. In the first place, Gaertner 

 (De Se7n. i. 151. t. 30. /. 8.) has, I have little doubt, described 

 the fruit of Dr. Roxburgh's N audea parvifoUa {Hort. Beng. 14.) 

 as that of the N. or lent alia. The synonyma, however, which he 

 quotes are totally erroneous : for his plant has sessile capitula ; 

 but those of both Katou Tsjaka and Bancalus are pedunculated. 

 In the next place, although I think it probable that the Katou 

 Tsjaka is called Kadam in the vulgar, and Kadamba in the 

 sacred dialect of Gangetic India ; and although, no doubt, 

 Dr. Roxburgh's Cadamba is the same word, yet the same names 

 are given to what I take to be the Arbor nocth s. Bancalus fœmina 

 et hit [folia of Rumphius (//t/-i..4/«/>. iii. 84. ^ 54.), which although 

 very like indeed to what I consider as the Katou Tsjaka, yet has 

 a fruit which can by no means be reconciled with the description 

 given by Rheede, who says, " fructus globosi virides sunt, qui 

 dein rubicundi, tandemque nigricantes et fragiles évadant ; et si 

 asperius tractentur, facile solvuntur, ac in plures oblongos virides 

 nitentes folliculos secedunt." Now I think that the folliculi 

 nitentcs imply capsules, such as described by Gœrtner, although 



they 



